Joanne Csete

TL;DR: The Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Drug Policy and Health as mentioned in this paper examined the emerging scientific evidence on public health issues arising from drug control policy and to inform and encourage a central focus on health evidence and outcomes in drug-policy debates, such as the important deliberations of the 2016 UNGASS on drugs.

TL;DR: Evidence on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services and rights-based responses to HIV and drug use have had good outcomes where they have been implemented, and they should be replicated in other countries.

TL;DR: This article brings together public health evidence and legal analysis as a contribution toward changing the global drug control regime to a more health-friendly, human rights-based system.

TL;DR: The United Nations has for too long tried to enforce a repressive, ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach as mentioned in this paper, which has produced enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage, such as mass incarceration in the US, highly repressive policies in Asia, vast corruption and political destabilisation in Afghanistan and West Africa, immense violence in Latin America, an HIV epidemic in Russia, an acute global shortage of pain medication and the propagation of systematic human rights abuses around the world.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore types of legal problems and legal services linked to health outcomes for drug users, sex workers, and sexual minorities and make recommendations for donors, legal service providers, and civil society organizations.